A86: Re: Timings

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Subject: A86: Re: Timings
From: "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:05:48 -0600
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The Z80 in the 86 runs at 6Mhz, or 6,000,000 clock cycles per second.  An
instruction is measured in t-states, or time states.  A 4 t-state
instruction, such as NOP, would execute 1.5 million times in a second
(though I have heard this is not exact, can anyone confirm?).

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From: vween@gdi.net <vween@gdi.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 8:45 PM
Subject: A86: Timings

>
>How long does it take for each clock cycle?   I want
>to make a 1 second timer as accurate as possible.
>

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